THANKSGIVING: The former candidates speak!

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2024

The disorder we all live with: This morning, C-Span's Washington Journal had its head near the clouds.

The C-Span program focused on ways to "bridge the political divide"—on ways to promote "civility in politics." Some callers seemed to grasp the idea. Some callers possibly didn't. 

Then too, we have the former candidates, each of whom spoke this week. On Tuesday, former candidate Harris went first:

Former candidate Kamala Harris, 11/26/24: 
As you heard we say many times, we like hard work. Hard work is good work. Hard work can be joyful work. And in doing our work, we will remain committed and intentional about building community—building coalitions, reminding people that we all have so much more in common that what separates us.

So said the one former candidate in a videotaped statement. To see the C-Span videotape, just click here, then move to the four-minute mark.

On Tuesday, so said former candidate Harris! Yesterday, former candidate Donald J. Trump offered his own remarks in this thoughtful Truth Social post:

Former candidate Donald J. Trump, 11/27/24: 
Happy Thanksgiving to all, including to the Radical Left Lunatics who have worked so hard to destroy our Country, but who have miserably failed, and will always fail, because their ideas and policies are so hopelessly bad that the great people of our Nation just gave a landslide victory to those who want to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

So it went on Truth Social, with holiday wishes to all. For the record, the margin in that "landslide victory" is now down to 1.5 points.

With respect to the Harris statement, reaction was swift, and was deranged, within many of Red America's enclaves. That included the Fox News Channel, where tribunes were quickly saying, working from established script, that former candidate Harris seemed to be drunk, or must have been drunk, when she taped her statement.

The so-called "democratization of media" has created this situation. Tomorrow, we'll give you more detail about these soul-draining, braindead reactions from within Red America's world.

Now, a bit of historical context:

Way back when, Norman Rockwell created a famous cover for the Saturday Evening Post. His illustration was called The Problem We All Live With.

You can see that painting here. 

The so-called "democratization of media" has created a newer problem. In large measure, our nation's discourse, such as it is, belongs to the least of us now. 

Increasingly, this is the problem we all currently live with. It isn't clear that here's an easy way to extricate ourselves from this disordered mess. 

In fairness, we also had the recent statements by those two Hollywood stars. Their statements are part of this problem too, and they spoke from Blue America's part of the playing field.

One former candidate must have been drunk. Meanwhile, the other former candidate extended his holiday wishes even to the radical lunatics who have worked to destroy our country.

This is the problem we currently live with. The New York Times will maintain its silence. We'll give you more detail tomorrow.